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Rarely has so much effort been packed into one macro level study of Indian iconography. Travelling extensively throughout the length and breath of six eastern Indian States of Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Assam and Tripura over a period of five years, defying extreme climates ignoring extremist threats and braving the inhospitable right outs on unknown roads historians Malaysankar Bhattacharyya and Susanta Kumar Biswas have managed to put together some of ...
The time is 9 century A.D. The place, Pala Empire's Capital Gour. Mahendrapala is the all powerful emperor. His territory stretches from Brahmaputra River in the East, to Ayodhya in the West, and Bhutan in the North to the Deltaic regions of Bengal in the South. But a dangerous palace conspiracy is brewing up. The Emperor's own stepbrother Shuropala, whose uncontrollable imperialistic zeal has found support from a greedy and unscrupulous army chief Bhattarak, and ...